This is the Sick Phoque Club‘s biggest induction yet

And this month, it’s all of you lot. In your attempts to make everyone else’s life a living hell, you’ve made one man’s life much, much better. The man in question is Rick Astley, the singer of the internet’s trolling anthem “Never Gonna Give You Up,” which hit a billion views this week. While the song has been used in the context of bait-and-switch pranks for nearly two decades, all that linking has turned the song into one of YouTube’s top-performing videos. It turns out that we just can’t give up “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Originally released on July 27, 1987, “Never Gonna Give You Up” turned 34 this week. Reaching such a height is no small feat, even for a big birthday boy. The video joins the ranks of not just such other annoyances as Despacito (which has more views than any other video at almost 7.5 billion), Gangnam Style (first video to reach a billion), and Baby by Justin Bieber, but also real classics like A-Ha’s “Take On Me,” Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” but not Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” which hasn’t reached a billion views yet. To get Thriller into the club, click here. The link will take you to Thriller and is definitely not another rickroll, otherwise I might as well call this blog Disseminators of the Rickrolls.